I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly.

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

Mainstream culture is like your mom: It's always a little late to catch on and gets easily confused by technology, but it means well.

I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works.

Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?

Individuals who could not form cooperative alliances, on average, died sooner and left fewer children. And so we are the descendants of the successful cooperators.

Any religious person who says he does not really need human friends because God is his Friend is calling God a liar because He's the One Who says we also need human friends.

Losing gracefully is commended but never chosen.

You could have all the computer chips ever in the world and you won’t create a consciousness.

The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with.